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  <recipe>
    <head>
      <title>1994 1st Place Rumprint Cookies</title>
      <categories>
        <cat>Cookies</cat>
        <cat>Holiday</cat></categories>
      <yield>36</yield></head>
    <ingredients>
      <ing-div>
        <title/>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>2/3</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>Unsalted butter, softened</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1/3</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>Granulated sugar</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Egg</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>teaspoon</unit></amt>
          <item>Vanilla extract</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1/4</qty>
            <unit>teaspoons</unit></amt>
          <item>Salt</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1 3/4</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>All-purpose flour</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1/4</qty>
            <unit>teaspoons</unit></amt>
          <item>Nutmeg or to taste</item></ing></ing-div>
      <ing-div>
        <title>FILLING</title>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1/4</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>Unsalted butter, softened</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>cup</unit></amt>
          <item>Sifted confectioners' sugar</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>teaspoon</unit></amt>
          <item>Rum extract or to taste</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Nutmeg for garnish</item></ing></ing-div></ingredients>
    <directions>
      <step>   Preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes Chilling time: 1 hour 15 minutes
  Cooking time: 12 minutes per batch
  
   1. Beat butter in large bowl of electric mixer until light; beat in sugar
  until fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla and salt; beat well. Stir in flour and
  nutmeg until well mixed. Refrigerate dough, covered, 1 hour.
   2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.
   3. Shape dough into 1-inch diameter balls. Place 2 inches apart on baking
  sheets. Press down centers with thumb. Bake until barely golden, about 12
  minutes. Cool on wire racks.
   4. For filling, beat butter until light. Beat in confectioners' sugar
  until fluffy. Add rum extract to taste. Beat well. Fill a pastry bag fitted
  with a  medium star tip with the filling. Pipe a star into the center of
  each cookie.  Sprinkle with nutmeg. Chill until filling firms, 15 minutes.
  
  This is a light and delicate cookie with a rum-flavored filling. Rebecca
  Gottfred of Arlington Heights, Illinois says her recipe doubles and triples
  easily and the baked cookies freeze well. from the Chicago Tribune seventh
  annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 8, 1994
  Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #338
  
  From: Linda Place &lt;placel@worldnet.att.net&gt;
  
  Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:22:58 +0000
 
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